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“People quickly forget evil because they still haven't created a language to describe it so the world refuses to carry the burden, preferring to forget.”

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“Where does our need to accelerate time come from? From impatience to arrive in the near future into which we have projected our trifling desires. Our need to slow time down would surely be natural. But why this strong desire to speed things up? Why are we always in a hurry to reach the future?”

Life Time Future Life And Living Speed Time Travel Speeding

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“Whenever I'm in the company of strangers and speak in a way that reveals my Slav accent, the question follows: "Where are you from?" I always reply politely. It's very important to me that I say exactly where I'm from, and explain where that place is in case the person I'm talking to has never hears of my country ("in Europe, near Italy"). I suppose that's the need in me to feel accepted for what I am.”

Foreign Language Otherness The Other Accent Foreigner Slavic Peoples

Book:My Heart

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“Once, long ago, there was a world in which we called different languages "ours".”

Languages Yugoslavia Slavic Peoples Slavic Literature Slavic Languages

Book:My Heart

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